As mad as a hatter... sometimes
Colin Smyth
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Jun 16 2008
Access Denied
Talk about a leave of absence! Have not been near this site since early February bar the occasional upgrade to WordPress itself. So its re-cap time, Apologies to anyone who landed on the site when they googled the 554 error. I encountered it during December a few days before I created the rant post so …
Feb 07 2008
Disinfectant plzthx
Two months without updates? thats about the norm now 😐 So, Christmas 2007 is over (and I still have not gotten round to buying my new walking boots from the xmas money) and its now ’08. And for the 3rd year in a trot, my NYE has been cut short because I fell ill with …
Dec 03 2007
SMTP Error 554: Transaction failed
How stupid can some people be? Particularly when it comes to work email accounts? 🙄 Here at work, we utilise Surfcontrol for filtering web and email for certain items. Its biggest benefit is that it blocks loads of spam, as well as the occasional false-positive (because of certain keywords being caught) as well as Adult …
Nov 16 2007
Fresh lick of paint…
Another painless upgrade to WordPress, and a new theme to give a bit more “space” to the page. There seems to be a growing style of “squashed” themes where its all clumped down the middle of the page with huge white bars either side of it, so I went for one which fills most of …
Oct 25 2007
Connection Interrupted
Ever had one of those days where everything seems to be off by 1 ❓ Everything seems to be out of whack? your typing a key off so what comes out as ejsy instead, and anything you do seems to not work out right? I hate days like that 🙁 Its not worth the effort doing …